Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 71
And they had an only son, Prince Ivan, who was dumb from his birth.
Who acts: king, only son · What happens: have, be · To what, where: only son, birth
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, only son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ivan | punct |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ivan | compound |
| 9 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dumb | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dumb | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dumb | cop |
| 13 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 birth | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 birth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dumb | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | a only son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a only son | Ivan's birth | dumb property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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